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LOOM SHUTTLE. No. 246,230. Patented Aug. 23,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

JOHN WV. SOHN, OF OOLUMBIA,PENNSYLVANIA.

LOOM-SHUTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 246,230, dated August 23, 1881.

Application filed October 14, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN W. SOHN, of Columbia, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in Loom-Shuttles, of which the following is a specification.

The invention consists in the combining, with ashuttle-body and vertical spindle, of an end-perforated lever and a subjacent spring. as hereinafter described and claimed.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a top view of the shuttle; Fig. 2, a side view, partly in section. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the spool.

In the drawings, F represents the shuttlebody, which has a central recess, 'is open at the upper side, and provided with the vertical spindlef, for receiving the bobbin or spool g.

his a lever, perforated at the front end to receive the upper'end of the spindle, and i is a spring arranged under the rear end of lever h and resting against said end, so as to press it up and force the front end down to bear upon a projection on the upper end of the spool, or, when the lever is turned back, to

(ModeL) It will thus be seen that the proper Having thus described all that is necessary to a full understanding of my invention, what I claim as new is- The combination, with the shuttle-body and vertical spindle, of the lever IL, perforated at the front end, and the subjacent spring 0;, arranged to rest against the rear end of the lever and hold it up or down, as described.

JOHN WESLEY SOHN.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. HOOK, W. F. WILsoN. 

